Project Codename "Astoria Offline", Alpha Preview

As recently announced, early preview bits are available for Astoria that provide synchronization capabilities, which allow you to create applications that work offline (among other things).

Note that this announcement was made close to the "1.5" made not too long ago, but they are separate, distinct things that will not play well if installed on the same machine. You really, really don't want to mix the two.

The idea here is really to reach out, give people a feeling of what the problem space looks like and what a solution might look like, and help us get feedback and have a conversation around this. As usual, the team blog and the forums are your best friends.

Enjoy!